{"id":500,"date":"2026-10-14T15:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:19:39","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t like looking into mirrors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I fear that all I will see is a long face, an ear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that sticks out, and a mole on my neck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the mirror came with the old house,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I left it on its wall.&nbsp; Occasionally, I see<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a fleeting image of myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my current house,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the only mirror is in the bathroom.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Groggy from sleep, I see my mother.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her long face, lines running<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">like parentheses along the sides<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">of her nose to her mouth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know what I thought I might find,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">perhaps an artifact of myself. I find<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">only the long lines like hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her reflection smiles at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pineberry lit journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflections I don\u2019t like looking into mirrors. I fear that all I will see is a long face, an ear that sticks out, and a mole on my neck. But the mirror came with the old house, I left it on its wall.&nbsp; Occasionally, I see a fleeting image of myself. In my current house,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/reflections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-published-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}